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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Faking Source IP Addresses?
Date: 23 Sep 1995 11:34:37 +0200
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Manu Iyengar <iyengar@galaxy.ee.rochester.edu> wrote:
>Out of curiosity: could a _user-level_ process send a packet claiming to be
>from some arbitrary IP address (not its own)?

iijppp does it, i think.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)